A Year Ago Today, Terrorists Stole My Son | The Free Press

My son Alon lives in an apartment in Tel Aviv with his friends. It s not fancy, but it s charming and warm; sometimes his little brother, Ronen, will stay there if he doesn t want to make the journey late at night to our home north of Haifa. For more than a decade Alon has played piano, and he has an acceptance letter to Rimon School of Music. He loves to grill, but always complains to his dad that ours doesn t work, so we bought a brand-new one a few months ago. For his twenty-third birthday this past February, everyone from around our small community came together to play music and eat hot dogs, his favorite. It s a pretty good life.

The only problem is that my son is missing from it. We haven t seen him for a year. 

On the morning of October 7, 2023, my son was at the Nova Music Festival. When Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, he hid in a bomb shelter with 27 people. Sixteen of them were murdered. Seven survived after hiding for six hours under a pile of bodies. Four were taken hostage: Or Levy, Eliya Cohen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and my son, Alon Ohel. 

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